With a view to expand its team, CCRD is inviting applications from students who are interested in interning as editors under the organization. About CCRD The Centre for Constitutional Research and Development (CCRD) is established in recognition of the need to have an authoritative record of constitutional history, and judicial development and to create a forum for exchanging and sharing the discussion of the most important, relevant, and recent issues pertaining to the Constitution. CCRD is a platform established in 2019 under the aegis of VidhiAagaz [An Educational venture specialised i ..read more

We are glad to receive hundreds of Registration for Online National Quiz on Constitutional Law organised by Centre For Constitutional Research & Development. The marks and ranks of participants are stated in this list: Note: e-Certificates will be provided on the scheduled date. Some discount vouchers for every participant are being provided, details for which will be sent along with the certificates. For Question No. 2, Answer C is considered. For Question No. 4, Answer D is considered. Question No. 44 and 50 are eliminated for being similar and 2 Grace Marks are provided to all for thes ..read more

INTRODUCTION When the lockdown was imposed by the government, it aimed to reduce the threatens exposed to life however, the poor migrant workers who had come in search of better opportunities did not anticipate about what was to follow. India was among the first countries who had sent help to lift the Indians who were stranded in China, Italy, Iran and Japan due to a restriction on international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic and the government agreed to bear all the expenses then. The rich flew their children stranded abroad, but why wasn’t there any certainty to the lives of the ..read more

While the country sees its first and sudden pandemic-prevention lockdown and restrictions as like a curfew after independence, this lockdown comes with unequal powers in the hands of the executive, to restrict, remand and punish at their decisiveness. This also comes with the relentless and uncontrollable number of people, who are bound to break the current directions and guidelines. Many of these people have thus, either faced the music of the police souvenir “lathi” and humiliation of human dignity and the others of these members, have pushed it to another level of opposing and threatening t ..read more

Introduction Constitution, the guiding light of citizens and officials has been protecting and defending rights since ages. Whether it’s a written document or unwritten, the preservation of fundamental rights of its citizens has been the prime concern of a Constitution. But how does it perform this function? India uses the phraseology ‘procedure established by law’ while the United States of America uses ‘due process of law’ to reflect essentially the same phenomenon that is, individual’s freedom. It is because people make up a nation. The more secure their rights, the more developed a country ..read more

The advent of the modern world with its classical liberal ideas has rendered rule of law as the basic framework for questioning and analysing legal and political regimes. The conception is understood more as a continuum than a concrete set of characteristics but is premised on the basic idea of making power accountable and checking the arbitrary use of power by the governors. Upendra Baxi in his article ‘The Rule of Law in India’ emphasizes the tendency of limiting this conception by discussing it only within the liberal tradition from where it originated. He further examines the Indian instan ..read more

“The right to live with human dignity encompasses within its manifold, some of the finer facets of human civilization which makes life worth living. The expanded connotation of life would mean the tradition and cultural heritage of the person concerned.” -CERC v. Union of India[1] Introduction According to the Oxford Dictionary ‘Sleep’ is a condition of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed and consciousness practically suspended.2 Sleep is a necessary daily routine for living a ..read more

The 21st century better known as the age of the world wide web has revolutionized the working of every sector, industry and organization using the internet as the catalyst. Shopping, eating, learning, earning or chatting, you name the activity and it has been dominated by internet services. Growing at the rate of 11 users per second, 1 million users each day and having 4.4 billion people under its purview[1], the internet has become the biggest platform for; exchange of thoughts and ideas across nations, instigating rebels or protest against any unjust happening as seen with the #metoo movemen ..read more

The unprecedented press conference on January 12, 2018, held by the four of the Supreme Court’s senior-most judges: Justice Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M.B. Lokur, Kurian Joseph, accusing the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra for arbitrarily exercising power to allocate the cases in an unbridled and singular way, laid the touchstone for challenging the prerogative of the unchecked powers enjoyed by the Chief Justice of India. Following this event, the former law minister Mr.Shanti Bhushan had filed a PIL challenging the self-proclaimed supremacy of the Chief Justice of India by a declaration of th ..read more

Same- sex intercourse or other such homosexual acts have been deemed to be against the order of nature or as acts of gross indecency, and their criminalization has been the norm since the Colonial era. Till 2007, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, which criminalized carnal intercourse against the order of nature, was para materia with Section 377 of Singapore’s Penal Code 1936, when the latter was repealed. However, Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code, which essentially criminalizes consensual sex between men, still remained a part of the law. In 2018, in the landmark case of Navte ..read more